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Wordle

Wordle

Wordle is a simple program that produces "word clouds" from the text you select. These "word clouds" create an artful representation of the written word and highlight the words most frequently used. You can use it to analyze a speech or written article. It can be used as a form of poetry to share valuable thoughts.

I created this by typing in my Delicious user name. The words in this Wordle are the tags for my bookmarks.

Another NEW one that just appeared is http://www.tagxedo.com/, where you can put the words into a shape.

Word Cloud Generators:

Wordle
is a fun site for creating posters using a set of words--maybe from a poem, or a a review assignment, or a descriptive assignment. The words are transformed into an interesting pattern or "word cloud." Kids can create their own mini-posters with words for vocabulary or on a specific theme. For a great article on how to use this, click on WordleTips. Hint- use the tilde sign (~) whenever you want a complete phrase, when you are pasting text into the “Paste in a bunch of text” window, insert that character between any words that you want to keep together. For example, if you are writing "Math is Fun", write Math~is~Fun and the phrase will be a complete thought.
Tips on Ways to Use Wordles can be found here.

ABC Ya works much like Wordle. It creates final results that allow for change of font, layout and color. You can save in jpeg format and can print.

Make Word Mosaic is a tool by Image Chef. This is great for creative people. The results can be emailed or embedded in different social networks. There is also a link to Letter Soup from here and other graphic backgrounds.

Tag Cloud Generator does not allow pasting text but you can put in your own text and the result is cool as it provides a MOVING flash file that can be downloaded.

Tag Crowd allows the use of word frequency for emphasis in the clouds created. The file may also be uploaded or a URL can be given to access the cloud.

Tagul allows custom shape selection and multiple fonts in one cloud. Must be able to login with an email.

Taxgedo also allows custom shapes- choose any words- or a theme such the Family dogs. :-) Many shapes from which to choos.

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Wordle or Tagxedo or Tagul Challenge:

1. Watch the tutorial.

2. Create a Wordle or Tagxedo or Tagul that you could use in a library lesson.
3. Embed your wordle /tagxedo in your wiki and write a brief explanation about how you might use it in a lesson.

Big Huge Labs

Big Huge Labs has lots of fun things to do with your photographs. Many of these activities have great applications for the classroom. For this challenge, you will need access to digital photos. You can either use your own, or find files online to use. These tools are created to work with Flickr. A social networking site for sharing photos, but you can also use your own photos located on your computer or memory card.

Motivational Poster created @bighugelabs

Big Huge Lab Challenge:

Create a jpeg image using one of the Big Huge Labs tools.
Upload your image to your wiki.
Share how you might use this in your library.

Badge Maker: Create a Photo ID Badge
Motivator: Make Your Own Motivational Posters
Magazine Cover: Create Your Own Magazine Cover
Movie Poster: Create Your Own Movie Posters
Trading Cards: Create Your Own Trading Cards
Warholizer: Your Photo ala Warhol
BillBoard: Use your text and photo to create a billboard

More Image Generators

Final Image Generator Challenge:

Make an ALA Read Poster

Pixolu

Love this! Image searcher, fantastic.

Flickr

has lots of applications available online to help you make the most of your Flickr photos. Check out 100+ Tools for Flickr Addicts! WOW! Amazing!

Flickr Badges

Put a Flickr Badge on your school website or blog. Learn to make your own Flickr Badge here.

Spell With Flickr

The image at the top of this page of this was with Spell With Flickr
(Note: I took a screenshot of it and then modified the size.)

Printr Killr

Lets you design calendars to print from your Flickr images or any tag.

Flickr Toys:

There are dozens of things you can do with make magazine covers, motivational posters, ID cards, nametags, movie posters, calendars, cd covers, add captions, and much much more.

Bookr

Bookr lets you make photobooks from images in Flickr or Photobucket. Add captions, publish and turn the pages online. See a teacher created example here.

Bubblr

Add word bubbles to Flickr photos to make a photo comic strip with Bubblr.

Museumr -

hang your photos in a virtual museum with virtual visitors.

Flickr Montager -

makes a montage of Flickr photos with any tag.

Splashr -

gives you a variety of ways to display your Flickr photos or any Flickr photos quickly and easily

PhotoSoup

Create Jigsaw puzzles from your Flickr photos. Photosoup is a visual word puzzle. To create and play a new puzzle, you have to provide a topic, such as "zoo". Alternatively, you can use your own username to generate a puzzle that shows your photos. generator that allows users to create word search puzzles with tag-photo pairs taken from Flickr. The tag is hidden in the puzzle, and only the associated photo is shown as a clue. The objective is to find all hidden tags in the puzzle before you run out of time. See the puzzle I made using the topic 'computer' at the bottom of this page.

From Sites and Soundbytes blog: Flickr Storm is a very handy search engine for Flickr with especially nice features for public libraries. No need to register, the site offers you a tray to store photos you are interested in, a history file to show the photos you have clicked on, and keyword search. But best of all, you can click on "advanced" and really refine your choices for what sort of Creative Commons license you are looking for. Nicely, the images you receive as your results are small but clear. You can click to see them in more detail. When you scroll to the bottom of the results, you are also offered handy single-click ways to further refine your search.

TagGalaxy

lets you search and display images from Flickr by tag in a unique interface. For example, the tag LIBRARY:

Tag Galaxy Search Interface

Image display from LIBRARY search

FlickrGraph

lets you expore the relationship between Flickr users.

SlideFlickr

lets you create and embed slideshows from Flickr quickly and easily.

Dumpr

lets you have fun with photos in many different ways. Here's a "celebrity" photo--a photo of a photo being taken in the library media center:

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Dumpr also lets you make a Rubik's Cube from any photo:

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Or you can create a photo within a photo:

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BlowUp

Creates full screen slideshows from your Flickr images.

FotoViewr

"displays Flickr photos in this unique interactive 3D experience. Lets you choose different gallery styles.

Pixelpipe

Upload photos, and they are instantly added to every site you want them on (Flickr, Photobucket, blogs, Facebook, Vox, etc.)

See more Flickr Tools here and here.

World Photos

World Photos My Great World lets you find photos by location on a world map....and you can upload photos, too. You choose a place on a world map and access images from that location. The key feature of the site, though, is that you can then (without registering) choose an image, write a fairly lengthy message, and mail them both as an E-Card. The url address of the card can then be posted on an online journal or blog. Great student community project...or collaborate with another school in another state.

Social Bookmarking Tools for Images and Videos

Vi.sualize.us bookmark the pictures you love
FFFFound allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user's tastes and interests. The more you save images, the better the recommendations.
WeHeartIt a social bookmarking tool for images and videos. Put everything you saw and liked on the same page to look again whenever you want.